Four Quartets, T. S. Eliot’s mysterious and beautiful masterpiece, is a meditation on time and timelessness and is now prized as one of the 20th century’s most stunning literary achievements. Seventy-five years after its publication, Eliot’s poetry cycle has inspired three astonishing contemporary artists to join forces in a ravishing union of dance, music, painting, and poetry.

Reviews:“Pam Tanowitz has created dance theater of the highest caliber. ”- The New York Times

“…Pam Tanowitz’s own profound FOUR QUARTETS moves not only in time but as time. Traversing rhythmic and dynamic extremes – skittering en masse one moment and clearing the stage for a lonely adagio that radiates limbs the next – the dancers seemed to incarnate time. “– Financial Times

“Rarely do dance, music, poetry and image come together as sublimely as they have in FOUR QUARTETS” –The Berkshire Eagle

Four Quartets is co-commissioned by the Bard Fisher Center, where it received its world premiere in Bard SummerScape 2018, the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA, Barbican, London, and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.

GAGOSIAN is the lead corporate sponsor of Four Quartets. Major support provided by Rebecca Gold. Additional commissioning funds were provided by the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation, the O’Donnell-Green Music and Dance Foundation, the T. S. Eliot Foundation, King’s Fountain, Virginia and Timothy Millhiser, and Cultural Services of the French Embassy. Creation of the music was supported by the Thendara Foundation and New Music USA.

Photos by Marina Baranova

Blueprint

Premiere: John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing ArtsMarch 2018

Choreography by Pam TanowitzCostume Design by Reid Bartelme and Harriet JungMusic by Caroline Shaw (“Blueprint”), performed by Brooklyn Rider

"Ms. Tanowitz’s ‘Blueprint,’ performed on Wednesday, had its premiere in March at the Kennedy Center. A witty, bright barefoot trio for Jason Collins, Patricia Delgado and Victor Lozano, it abounds with the brisk, darting and bouncing footwork in which Ms. Tanowitz specializes; you can sense how Ms. Shaw’s score stimulates it.” - The New York Times

Blueprint was commissioned by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts as part of DEMO by Damian Woetzel.

Photos by Erin Baiano

New Work for Goldberg Variations

"A riveting dialogue of movement and music." - The New York Times

Deconstructing classical, formal and traditional movement vocabularies, NEW WORK FOR GOLDBERG VARIATIONS mirrors and converses with Bach’s iconic score in a delightful interplay of rhythm, style and idiosyncrasy, shifting between encoded gestures and virtuosic dancing and demonstrating the rich emotional world lying beneath the poised surface of the Goldberg’s musical architecture.

Reviews:“Ms. Tanowitz has long been one of the most formally brilliant choreographers around. ‘New Work’…makes full use of her formal skills.” – The New York Times

“Tanowitz’s choreography devises its own language, idiosyncratic yet entirely consistent. Gestures live on the cusp of familiarity, and the brilliantly differentiated cast is indefatigable in following the movement to its never-ends." – IndyWeek

"The Goldberg audience seemed very sorry to see the show end. We had gone a long way with these dancers—seventy-five minutes—and we could have gone longer." - The New Yorker

New Work for Goldberg Variations was commissioned by Duke Performances / Duke University & Peak Performances / Montclair State University, co-commissioned by Opening Nights Performing Arts / Florida State University & Summer Stages Dance at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston & received creative development support from the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC) at Florida State University, The Yard at Martha's Vineyard, the NYU Center for Ballet & the Arts & New York City Center. New Work for Goldberg Variations was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts' National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation & The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation & support from the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation. General Operating support for Pam Tanowitz Dance was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project with funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Photos by Marina Levitskaya, courtesy of Peak Performances @ Montclair State University

Once with me, Once without me

Premiere: Faena Forum2016

Choreography by Pam Tanowitz

Original Score by Dan SieglerCostume Design by Sybilla

Dancers:Maggie CloudJason CollinsDylan CrossmanSarah HaarmannVictor LozanoLindsey JonesWith Students from the Miami City Ballet School

Sequenzas in Quadrilles

Pam Tanowitz brings traditional forms into a modern day expression, in the “superbly suspenseful”, Sequenzas in Quadrilles, commissioned by the Joyce Theater. With unparalleled vigor and discipline Tanowitz continues her career long investigation of dance as object by throwing a net over material from sources as varied as 19th Century ballet, early modern dance, American jazz and the movement of pedestrians.

Support for the commission of Sequenzas in Quadrilles provided by King's Foundation and the Joyce Theater's Stephen and Cathy Weinroth Fund for New Work with additional support provided by The Joyce Foundation with major funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Additional support for the creation of this work was provided, in part, by New York City Center Choreography Fellowship and Fellowship at the Center for Ballet and the Arts at New York University.

"Ms. Tanowitz and her collaborators maintain such a high level of imagination that what is fragmented by design can be experienced as a satisfying, organic whole." - The New York Times

"Tanowitz’s work may seem slippery in its off-centredness .... but it is not cocky. It is pensive. With the tour de forceBroken Story (wherein there is no ecstasy), it is distantly emotional as well." - Financial Times